Read the article called The Road Ahead and complete the padlet listing the pros and cons of cars in our cities. Categorise them into the four pillars of sustainability - economic, environmental, cultural and social
This is an excellent video to watch about the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge on 30 May, 1959. Think about what differences there might be between then and now. Think about the background music. Would you hear music like that today in a documentary? How are the cars different? How is the bridge different? Are the volumes of traffic any different to today? We still have toll roads today but how do they operate compared with back then?
The 4 H's
You will answer four questions relating to the first picture and then write four sentences for the second one each based around one of the four H's.
Use Educreations to record your answers.
You can write a:
Haiku poem
Cinquain poem
I am a ...
Shape poem
It must be about CARS
Ideas:
Traffic Jam
Flat Tyre
First ride over the harbour bridge
Breaking down
Stopped by Police
Crash
Activity Three - in Room 21
Road Signs
Fill out the table about these funny and confusing road signs. Then you can design your own road sign that could end up in Cutfield's Corner!
Find the key words and main ideas from the different resources on this padlet. Click on the picture to go to padlet.
Activity Five - in room 22
Reciprocal Reading Work in a group of 4-5. Choose your roles and complete the reading task using your predicting/clarifying/questioning and summarising skills. Click on the picture to take you to the padlet.
Activity Six - in room 22
Group Challenge - Message Carrier Use and reflect on your Participating and Contributing, and Thinking Key Competencies
Task - make a 'message carrier' vehicle that must be able to travel 2m in a straight line. The vehicle can only be powered by the energy from an inflated balloon.
A further activity for fast finishers ...
Motorway Maps
Use the google map of the current motorway system to draw where the Northern, Western, South Western and Southern motorways were built, taking particular note of the number of residential streets that were taken over.
The Totara Room have been looking at the powerpoint below and discussing key aspects of the Industrial Revolution. We are using a SWOT analysis to record the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that resulted from this major turnaround in the history of the world, to where we have come today.
Term FOUR
Outline of the Project
Some key words in Sustainability!!!
Session 6
Role of Mayor
Roles of Local Councillors
Attributes of a City Councillor
Newspaper Article about growing population
THE ROAD AHEAD
Read the article called The Road Ahead and complete the padlet listing the pros and cons of cars in our cities. Categorise them into the four pillars of sustainability - economic, environmental, cultural and social
We compared and contrasted Valencia and Christchurch to see what they had done to improve their cities. This is our Venn Diagram.
What could make Auckland the best multi-cultural city in the world?
Term Three
Forces and Motion
What is a force? Take a quiz
Understanding Motion, then take a quiz
Week Two
Shared Reading
Cycles
Wilbur and Orville Wright - bikes before planes!
Venn Diagram - bikes vs planes (how did the idea of the bicycle instigate ideas about flight for the Wright brothers?)
Week One
Shared Reading -
Auckland Council Gives Nod to Skypath
Read the above article and answer questions on the worksheet provided.
This was our trip to the Maritime Museum.
Week 10 or even first week of Term 3
Census Data and Information
What does a Roading Engineer do?
What does an urban planner do?
Week 9
Week 7
This is an excellent video to watch about the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge on 30 May, 1959. Think about what differences there might be between then and now. Think about the background music. Would you hear music like that today in a documentary? How are the cars different? How is the bridge different? Are the volumes of traffic any different to today?
We still have toll roads today but how do they operate compared with back then?
Auckland Harbour Bridge Opening
Bus stop activities
Activity One - in Room 21
The 4 H's
You will answer four questions relating to the first picture and then write four sentences for the second one each based around one of the four H's.
Use Educreations to record your answers.
Activity Two - in Room 21
Writing an Auckland Transport Poem - about CARS
Take a look at examples of these poems:
You can write a:
Haiku poem
Cinquain poem
I am a ...
Shape poem
It must be about CARS
Ideas:
Traffic Jam
Flat Tyre
First ride over the harbour bridge
Breaking down
Stopped by Police
Crash
Activity Three - in Room 21
Road Signs
Fill out the table about these funny and confusing road signs. Then you can design your own road sign that could end up in Cutfield's Corner!
Activity Four - in room 22
Waterview Tunnel Project
Find the key words and main ideas from the different resources on this padlet. Click on the picture to go to padlet.
Activity Five - in room 22
Reciprocal Reading
Work in a group of 4-5. Choose your roles and complete the reading task using your predicting/clarifying/questioning and summarising skills.
Click on the picture to take you to the padlet.
Activity Six - in room 22
Group Challenge - Message Carrier
Use and reflect on your Participating and Contributing, and Thinking Key Competencies
Task - make a 'message carrier' vehicle that must be able to travel 2m in a straight line. The vehicle can only be powered by the energy from an inflated balloon.
A further activity for fast finishers ...
Motorway Maps
Use the google map of the current motorway system to draw where the Northern, Western, South Western and Southern motorways were built, taking particular note of the number of residential streets that were taken over.
Weeks 5 and 6
We can keep adding to this padlet as we come across more key words to include:
Akd Train Service Performance Results Activity
Safety around Trains
Weeks 3 and 4
Water Transport
POWERPOINT FOR INTRODUCING WAKA HOURUA TO AOTEAROA
Week 2
The Totara Room have been looking at the powerpoint below and discussing key aspects of the Industrial Revolution. We are using a SWOT analysis to record the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that resulted from this major turnaround in the history of the world, to where we have come today.
Week 1
Auckland's transport, and the other to record a BIG thinking question that you have for our inquiry.
TRAMS AND TRAINS
History of Railways - Invention of Rail Transport
Types of Transport in Britain
London Transport
The Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia
The Industrial Revolution - How it Started
The Industrial Revolution - Transportation
The Industrial Revolution - Steam Engines
The Industrial Revolution - Work and Classes
History of Public Transportation in New York
(An international city case study)
Victorian Transport
(Woodlands Junior School)
The Industrial Revolution - Britain
(Woodlands Junior School)
Richard Trevithick Train Inventor
George Stephenson - Train Inventor
Types of Trains
Interesting Facts About Trains
Compulsory Seat Belt Dates Chart
AUCKLAND TRAIN WEBSITES
Auckland Heritage Tram Rediscovered
NZ Treanways and Public Passenger Transport Union
Auckland Dockline Tram Fleet
An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand 1966
Auckland Heritage Tram Rediscovered
The Auckland Electric Tramways Company Ltd
Photos of Trams
Auckland Heritage Tram Rediscovered
Te Ara Encycopedia of New Zealand
Story: Public Transport